Wolfe County News - May 18, 1966 Accidental death has been ruled by the coroner's office in the fatal shooting of a man in Lexington late Monday. The victim, Lewis Clinton Taulbee, 28, of 265 Lyndhurst Place, Lexington, was found in a parking lot on the southeast corner of High Street and Stone Avenue about 11:55 p.m. He had been shot once with a sawed-off 25-20 caliber rifle. Coroner, Chester Hager said the bullet entered Taulbee's right forearm, continued into the right side of his chest and lodged in the right lower rib cage. Taulbee was pronounced dead at 11:59 p.m. Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital. Two witnesses to the shooting a 16-year-old girl and the victim's half-brother, Kenneth Ray Taulbee, told Hager that the trio was walking across the parking lot after leaving the victim's apartment on Lyndhurst Place, just prior to the accident. The said the men were going to drive her to her home in Campton. Lewis Taulbee the girl said was carrying the weapon under a raincoat. She said the gun slipped from under the coat and, as Taulbee bent down in the same motion to retrieve it, the weapon discharged when it hit the pavement. Hager said the gun has a very delicate firing mechanism and would discharge "almost by breathing on it." The coroner said the two witnesses' account of the shooting concided with the evidence gathered. A graduate of Sterling College in Sterling, Kan., Taulbee had served four years in the U.S. Navy. He was a technician at the University Hospital, Lexington. Survivors include his father, Clinton Taulbee, Campton; a brother, Herbert Taulbee of Morgan County; and five half-brothers, Cebern, Arnold and Andrew Taulbee, Campton; Graydon Taulbee, Ft. Hood, Texas; Kenneth Taulbee, Lexington; seven half-sisters, Beatrice Spencer, Middletown, O., Mrs. Vernie Brewer, of Pine Ridge, Mrs. Jettie Lykins of Campton, Mrs. Sadie Tolson, Middletown; Mrs. Joan Faulkner, Campton; Mrs. Phyllis Anderson, Berea and Miss Ina Taulbee, Pine Ridge. Services conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Campton Baptist Church, Campton by the Rev. Carl Faulkner. Burial in the Evans Cemetery. Shackelford Funeral Home in charge. Carole